Tatiana Williams , mass com-munication freshman , spent her summer stressing over whether she had a place to live on campus for fall 2010.

“I got to Baton Rouge in mid-August for orientation and had to fi nd an apartment last minute because I was still on the dorm standby list,” Williams said in a Facebook message. “I was coming alone from California.”

She was one of more than 1,000 students on the standby list for on-campus housing last fall that was imple-mented March 31.

Williams said communica t ion from Residential Life was sparse.

ResLife ex-pects another standby housing list this semes-ter, as the demand for on-campus housing exceeds availability, ac-cording to Jay High , communica-tions manager for ResLife .

For fall 2011, on-campus resi-dence halls are 75 percent full as of

last Friday, according to ResLife’s website.

This number does not include residential col-leges and is not en-tirely precise but is a good representa-tion of availability, High said.

Based on last fall’s data, High anticipates the re-maining 25 percent

of available on-campus housing will fi ll up by mid to late March .

“We were able to get in about 300 students [who were on

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BUDGET CUTS

University Provost and Exec-utive Vice Chancellor Jack Ham-ilton was accompanied by 140

empty chairs Monday in an attempt to dispel com-mon “myths” regarding the budget crisis in a speech to the Baton Rouge Press Club .

As the future of the U n i v e r s i t y ’s budget rests in the hands of politicians over the next six months , Ham-ilton called the

address “LSU’s own version of Myth-Busters.”

Hamilton used the 140 empty chairs at hand to illustrate his fi rst point: that the University is not “fat” or unharmed by budget cuts.

Xerxes A. WilsonStaff Writer

MYTHS, see page 15

Emily HerringtonContributing Writer

Kirby-Smith opening to increase capacity

RESIDENTIAL LIFE

About 75 percent of on-campus housing already full for fall

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Kirby-Smith Hall is being renovated and will re-open temporarily to alleviate the high demand for on-campus housing. The building will have new paint, lights and furniture.

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‘If we stay on our current

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With few class assignments, back-to-school bar spe-cials and the excitement of returning to campus after the holidays, the fi rst week of classes can be a minefi eld of distraction and drinking for students.

And with more drinking ostensibly comes a greater probability of students driving drunk.

LSUPD dealt with seven driving-while-intoxicated in-stances during the fi rst week of this semester — more than the department issued throughout all of last semester.

Most of the DWIs between Jan. 13 to Jan. 22 were issued near Nicholson Extension , according to LSUPD crime reports. Other locations included West Lakeshore Drive and Skip Bertman Drive, according to the reports.

LSUPD representative Sgt. Blake Tabor said four of the DWIs were University students, and the other three were people not affi liated with the University.

Cody Juneau , renewable natural resources freshman, said he always made sure to have a driver the three times he went out during the fi rst week of school.

Juneau said he typically goes out once a week.“Everyone goes out the fi rst week because we don’t

have anything to worry about,” Juneau said.But Tabor said there aren’t necessarily more DWIs re-

corded during the fi rst week of school than any other week in the year, and it’s hard to compare one week to another.

In the days surrounding the Nov. 6 football game against Alabama — one of the busiest party weekends of the semester — there were no DWIs issued by LSUPD. And out of the fi ve total DWIs last semester, two of them were issued during fi nals week.

Tabor said students are trying to fi gure out where they fi t

Celeste AnsleyStaff Writer

LSUPD issues 7 DWIs during fi rst week of semester

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Bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport deemed terrorist attack

MOSCOW (AP) — Terrorists struck again in the heart of Rus-sia, with a suicide bomber blow-ing himself up Monday in Mos-cow’s busiest airport and turning its international-arrivals terminal into a smoky, blood-spattered hall of dismembered bodies, screaming survivors and abandoned suitcases. At least 35 people were killed, in-cluding two British travelers.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast at Domodedovo Air-port that also wounded 180 people.

Egypt archaeologist asks Berlin to return Nefertiti bust

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top ar-chaeologist has formally request-ed the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for de-cades, the latest move in his eight-year-old campaign to bring home ancient artifacts spirited out of the country during colonial times.

The bust dates back to the time of the 14th century B.C. queen and tops Egypt’s wish list of artifacts that Zahi Hawass wants to see back home. The bust is currently at Berlin’s Neues Museum.

Suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Tucson, Ariz., shooting

PHOENIX (AP) — The suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Gif-fords smiled and nodded but didn’t speak as he appeared in court Mon-day and his lawyer provided the 22-year-old’s fi rst response to the charges: a plea of not guilty.

The Tucson resident wore an orange prison jumpsuit and glass-es, and his wrists were cuffed to a chain around his waist as eight U.S. Marshals kept watch in the packed Phoenix courtroom and gallery above.

Judge recommends fi ve-year probation for doctor of octomom

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Cali-fornia judge believes octomom Nadya Suleman’s fertility doctor should be allowed to keep practic-ing medicine, and the state’s move to revoke his license was too se-vere, according to a copy of the proposed decision obtained Mon-day.

Dr. Michael Kamrava should be placed on probation for fi ve years for his substandard treatment of Suleman and two other patients, Judge Daniel Juarez said in the 46-page document provided to The Associated Press.

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CLINTON (AP) — State police say a convicted felon has been arrested after troopers stopped a truck and found four assault rifl es inside.

Troopers tell WAFB-TV that 33-year-old James Behrnes of Clinton was pulled over for alleg-edly speeding in East Feliciana Parish on Sunday.

Trooper Russell Graham said offi cer found three AK-47s, an AR-15 and a .45 caliber semiau-tomatic pistol. He say authorities also found nine loaded assault rifl e magazines, a 50-round drum clip, fi ve loaded handgun clips and hun-dreds of rounds of ammunition.

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LAKE CHARLES (AP) — Lake Charles police say a 17-year-old has been booked with simple arson in the fi re that destroyed a city park Jan. 8.

KPLC-TV reports that the teen is being held in lieu of $60,000 bond — and authorities expect at least one more arrest.

Police announced the youth’s name, but The Associated Press does not identify juveniles.

World Economic Forum opens with litany of problems

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The annual World Economic Forum opens this week under a cloud of economic worries, concern over China’s growing infl uence in politics and business, and simmering anxiet-ies over Europe’s debt crisis.

Ahead of Wednesday’s start, the meeting was greeted with news that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had postponed his planned departure to Switzerland after what offi cials called a suicide bombing occurred at Moscow’s busiest airport.

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Rescuers bring a wounded blast victim to a hospital Monday after a suicide bombing at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow that killed dozens.

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Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying to partner the state’s private schools with public businesses to provide mentoring, counseling and new buildings.

The announcement came at the same Louisiana Association of Busi-ness and Industry meeting in which Jindal confi rmed his hopes to keep budget cuts to higher education less than 10 percent .

Jindal’s plan would encourage businesses to provide career coun-seling, mentoring and technical con-sulting to the state’s charter schools.

It would also encourage those businesses to pay for land or build-ings.

Participating businesses would receive a minority percentage on the school’s board. They would also get preferred enrollment at the charter schools for company employees.

Fifty percent of a school’s en-rollment capacity would be reserved for children of the partnering busi-nesses. If more students than alotted enroll, a lottery is instituted to fi ll the reserved seats.

The remaining 50 percent of en-rollment is determined by a lottery opened to all qualifying students in the school’s geographic area. This process currently determines enroll-ment for the entire school.

“This new business-charter school partnership legislation will

help feed the pipeline of qualifi ed workers for Louisiana businesses while creating important career op-portunities for students,” Jindal said at the meeting.

Jindal said he has already start-ed seeking corporate partners. Glen Post , president and CEO of Monroe-based communications company CenturyLink, said his company was looking forward to participating in the program.

“Companies like CenturyLink should benefi t as programs such as this one help create a more qualifi ed work force in the future,” Post said in a news release.

Jindal’s proposal must be ap-proved by the Legislature before it can be implemented.

The program is modeled after a similar one in Florida . In addition to allowing companies to partner with

schools, Florida allows large compa-nies to host on-site schools specifi -cally for employees’ children.

The Florida program also al-lows companies to provide capi-tal for projects in charter schools. Its constitution specifi cally allows schools that partner with businesses to give preferential enrollment to company employees.

Jindal said the Florida program resulted in fi ve partnerships. He also said similar partnerships are “under way” in 14 other states.

Jindal said the partnerships were an important part of continu-ally improving the state’s historically poor education system.

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President Barack Obama will give his second State of the Union speech tonight at 8 Central Stan-dard Time .

In a video addressed to his supporters released Saturday, Obama said the speech would fo-cus primarily on the economy.

Specifi cally, Obama said the speech would focus on unemploy-ment and on making the U.S. com-petitive with the rest of the world.

The annual speech is

traditionally an opportunity for the president to both diagnose the country’s health and to explain his agenda for the coming year in front of a joint session of Congress.

Robert Gibbs , Obama’s press secretary, told reporters in a press conference yesterday the president would also address the infamous Tucson , Ariz., shooting, according to the Los Angeles Times .

That Jan. 8 shooting killed six and left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Giffords continues to

recover. The shooting has stirred de-

bate in national news outlets and the Congress fl oor about partisan-ship and angry rhetoric in the coun-try’s heated political discourse.

Gibbs also said in the confer-ence that several people involved with the shooting would be in at-tendance, including the intern credited with saving Giffords’ life, a member of the medical team that treated Giffords and the family of one of the victims slain in the at-tack.

In addition to the president’s

comments, some legislators have made a conspicuous effort to make a symbolic gesture of bipartisan-ship in the wake of the shooting.

Sen. Mark Udall, D-Utah, pro-posed that representatives and sen-ators from the two political parties sit with members of the opposition, according to news reports.

Udall plans to sit with Sen. John McCain , R-Arizona, who challenged Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

Most recent State of the Union speeches have seen representatives of the two parties sit separately,

leading to sometimes stark mo-ments where one party remains obviously seated despite standing ovations from the other.

Last year’s state of the Union turned especially tense when Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. , yelled “you lie” during Obama’s speech.

Wilson plans to sit between two Democrats this year, his offi ce announced via Twitter.

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Room 151 of Coates Hall was transformed from a standard classroom to an Indian escape Monday night with the premiere of the University’s fi rst Bolly-wood Film Festival , a 10-part cultural fi lm experience.

The festival, which is spon-sored by the departments of Eng-lish and International Studies and the Program for Study of Film

and Media Arts , is free and open to the public and will feature a variety of fi lms from the Indian fi lm industry.

The Indian classics will be played each Mon-day at 6 p.m. through April 4.

Pallavi Ras-togi , English as-sociate professor and associate director of Inter-national Studies , said the fi lm festi-val is organized around her Film and Media Arts class on Bolly-wood, but all students are invited

to attend.Rastogi said she hand-picked

the eight fi lms that will be shown based on the theme of “trans-formational cine-ma” from the last 15 years.

“Bollywood fi lms are fun, and Bollywood is so immensely popu-lar not just in India but also all over the world,” Rastogi said in

an e-mail. “These fi lms involve a radically different style of movie-making that will interest

and engage students.”Rastogi said the festival will

allow students to gain an under-standing of other cultures in an entertaining way.

“Given the large number of Indian students at LSU, Indian culture could be a much bigger part of campus life in general,” she said. “The festival is, hope-fully, just one small way of intro-ducing the LSU community to an aspect of Indian life.”

In addition to the fi lm series, Rastogi said students will have the opportunity to learn signature Bollywood dance moves with dance instructor Subha Rajgopal.

Rajgopal will conduct a Bollywood dance workshop on Wednesday, April 27 at 4 p.m. The location of the workshop will be announced closer to the event.

Immediately following the workshop, dancers can cool down while listening to a lecture on Bollywood song and dance se-quences by Rastogi.

Indian refreshments will be available during the event.

After nearly four years of construction, the Student Union’s Leisure Arts Studio is reopening with a new space, new equipment and a new-found freedom.

Leisure arts classes started in their new space on the fi rst fl oor of the Union on Tuesday , Jan. 18 . Classes in stained glass , jewelry , watercolor , hand building clay , wheel throwing clay and others are now offered in the new Lei-sure Arts Studio. Art classes are open to non-art majors as well as the general public.

“It has been kind of a long wait for us,” said Lynne Max-well , assistant director of leisure and arts. “I have been very look-ing forward to our reopening.”

Registration is staggered for the non-credit art courses, and many will be starting in the spring. Class fees range from $20

to $150, and discounts are avail-able for University students.

Classes are taught by pro-fessionals with a passion for their specifi c art medium and for teaching, according to Maxwell .

She said many instructors are old hands at teaching, and several are just getting their feet wet.

“If you’re interested in learn-ing something new, it’s a cheap option,” said Daniel Winkler , education graduate student .

The new Leisure Arts Studio, previously known as the Creative Arts Center , has a number of new features. Work space was ex-panded to include new work areas and equipment.

Most nota-bly, the kilns are located in a room

outside of the Union’s classroom space instead of inside the work space like the previous center. New industrial sinks and a sepa-rate glaze room were added, as well, said Maxwell .

Flexible ventilation snorkels are attached to the ceiling above work stations. These snorkels may be positioned above proj-ects to capture dangerous work fumes and create a safer working

environment, according to Max-well .

Safety was also considered when installing suspended outlets above the clay wheel area. The previous work space had elec-trical outlets sticking out of the ground leaving cause for concern as clay wheel spinning requires a

bucket of water on the fl oor next to the wheel.

New hours have come in ad-dition to a new location. The old Creative Arts Center shared space with a frame shop and had to re-strict hours to fi t with the fram-ers’ schedule. The fl exible times have students like watercoloring

instructor Roberta Lofl in excited.“I like the relaxed feeling

of working on Sundays, and the parking is much easier,” Lofl in said.

UNION

Josh NaquinContributing Writer

Applied art classes now available

New Leisure Arts Studio reopens after nearly 4 years

Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

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The new Leisure Arts Studio in the Student Union features new equipment, more work areas and ventilation snorkels.

ENTERTAINMENT

Sydni DunnStaff Writer

Movies shown on Mondays until April

University gets taste of Bollywood culture in f ilm fest

Contact Sydni Dunn at sdunn@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘If you’re interested

in learning something new, it’s

a cheap option.’Daniel Winkler

education graduate student

Movie showings:•Jan. 31: •Feb. 7: •Feb. 14: •Feb. 21: •Feb. 28: •March 14: •March 21: •March 28: •April 4:

“Lagaan,” Part 1“Lagaan,” Part 2“Lajja,” Part 1“Lajja,” Part 2“Bride and Prejudice”“Parineeta”“Omkara”“Chak De India”“Peepli Live”

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The Baton Rouge Crisis In-tervention Center is going digital.

The crisis center is joining several other similar centers na-tionwide in using an online chat proven to be just as popular as BRCIC’s telephone service, THE PHONE.

Six crisis centers around the country worked together to de-velop the online chat pilot, and the BRCIC was the second center to go live online.

Albany, N.Y.; Austin, Tex-as; and the state of Arkansas are the only other centers in the coun-try to use the chat program, said Aaron Blackledge, director of ad-vancement at the BRCIC.

“We realized that many teenagers were not reaching out through traditional means of the phone,” Blackledge said. “We wanted to reach them through an instant messaging system.”

Cassie Dinecola, social work graduate student and counselor at BRCIC, said an important benefit to using the instant messaging is its anonymity.

The chatter can choose to give his or her name, e-mail

address, age and general reason for the chat. However, the chatter can also choose not to comment on the general information sec-tion, Dinecola said.

Statistics show more people are choosing to speak with cri-sis centers now that online chats have been set up, according to Blackledge. Through online chat-ting, the BRCIC hopes to reach younger people who would not normally choose to communicate via phone, he said.

An average crisis call on THE PHONE usually lasts between 20

to 30 minutes, but online chatters usually give more information than one would over the phone, Blackledge said.

Because chatters feel more comfortable online, conversations can take an hour or longer because they want to engage in a deeper conversation than they would over the phone, Blackledge said.

Many at BRCIC believe the new chat method is a step in the right direction because younger generations use newer technology more often.

“I think that the people who

would be requesting online chat help are probably predisposed to computer communication,” said Lauren Roberts, psychology se-nior and BRCIC counselor.

Even though the online chat has opened doors for the crisis centers, there are some cons to the new system.

“I would say that chatting would take the personal element out of THE PHONE,” Roberts said. “It’s much more difficult to tune in to emotions or find the words behind the words that actu-ally help us work out the crisis at hand.”

Crisis management strategies are different over the Internet than over the phone because counsel-ors must ensure they are on the same page as the chatter, Dinecola said. The counselors lose auditory cues in the caller’s voice that they would pick up over the phone.

Dinecola described her time

working as a counselor at the BRCIC as a rewarding experi-ence.

“It’s definitely a good feeling to complete challenging chats and calls,” Dinecola said.

Other centers in the country have been inspired by the use of the crisis chat and hope to join the effort online.

Seven other centers have shown interest and are expected to join online this year, including Portland, Ore., Seattle and Cincin-nati, Blackledge said.

“Ideally, we want a crisis cen-ter in every state that has the abil-ity to reach people over the Inter-net,” Blackledge said.

BRCIC can be reached at crisischat.org.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Kate MabryContributing Writer

Chat aims to reach younger generation

BRCIC pilots online crisis management chat program

photo courtesy of Aaron Blackledge

Cassie Dinecola, a social work graduate student, speaks with someone via online chat Jan. 12 through the Crisis Chat program at BRCIC.

Huddled tightly around a com-puter screen in a Nicholson Hall office, two University professors and a graduate student made a dis-covery that was out of this world.

The trio was working with an international team last summer to create a catalog of data collected from the Gamma-ray Burst Moni-tor on NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope when they found that the Crab Nebula, one of the most studied items in the sky, was dimming.

The findings were unexpect-ed, according to Michael Cherry, Department of Physics and As-tronomy chair and professor, who worked on the project with Phys-ics and Astronomy Professor Gary Case and graduate student James Rodi.

“It was surprising because the Crab Nebula is the only source close enough and bright enough to be studied in detail,” Cherry said. “[Its energy is] so constant that we’ve used it as a

calibration standard for checking our instruments.”

Cherry said his initial reaction was that they must be wrong or that the instrument was losing sensitiv-ity, and the team began to conduct further experiments.

“We looked at the results from three other instruments and saw exactly the same results,” he said.

Case said after analyzing the data, they shared the newfound in-formation with the rest of the col-laboration. The team then joined to write the results in a paper that was submitted for publication in September.

“The results were first present-ed in preliminary form to a con-ference of X-ray astronomers in Ireland in October,” he explained. “The full results were presented at the [American Astronomical So-ciety] meeting last week, and it is quite gratifying to see the work we had done picked by NASA to be re-leased as a press release.”

Cherry said they have been constantly attending meetings, presenting the information and discussing the results among col-leagues. The findings will also be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

“It is certainly an interesting result, and we’ve been having a lot

of fun with it,” he said.The nebula is currently being

monitored at the University and abroad to see how long the Crab dims before rebrightening.

“We don’t expect this will result in the Crab turning off,” he said. “At this point we are assum-ing this is a phenomenon that re-peats itself having to do with the readjustment of the central mag-netic fields. We are assuming it will go back up.”

The team came to this conclu-sion after examining data from the nebula’s past and noticing the en-ergy has increased and decreased on a three-year cycle since 1999.

Cherry said the changes were only by a small percent, but the lat-est data shows the steepest decline has occurred within the last two years.

“We think we understand how an object like this works pretty well, but there are some things we still don’t understand,” Cherry said. “We need to find out what is going on at the central core — that’s a high priority for astrophys-ics.”

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

Contact Sydni Dunn at sdunn@lsureveille.com

Sydni DunnStaff Writer

Crab Nebula findings published

University physicists make astronomical discovery

ASTRONOMY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — At-tention texting pedestrians and iP-od-obsessed runners on the street: You may soon get unplugged.

After targeting drivers who paid more attention to their phone calls and text messages than the road, lawmakers in Arkansas and New York are now looking to crack down on pedestrians equally dis-tracted by their own electronic gad-gets.

Lawmakers in both states have proposed restrictions on using cell phones and music players such as iPods by people running and walk-ing on the street or sidewalk. The apparent message: Distracted pe-destrians are dangerous.

“It’s not just distracted drivers. We focus a lot on distracted driv-ers, but we also need to focus on

distracted walkers and joggers,” said Jonathan Adkins, a spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, a nonprofit organiza-tion representing state highway safety offices.

The proposal in Arkansas would ban pedestrians from wear-ing headphones in both ears while on, parallel or adjacent to a street, road, intersection or highway. The measure also applies to runners and cyclists and would allow pedestri-ans to wear headphones in one ear.

“You might not get the full effect of the Boston Symphony Orchestra with one ear, but you at least will be aware of your sur-roundings,” said Sen. Jimmy Jef-fress, a Democrat from Crossett who proposed the legislation.

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HOUSING, from page 1

Contact Emily Herrington at eherrington@lsureveille.com

More than 10 years ago, a barbed wire fence separated the Uni-versity from the surrounding com-munity.

A student of Jan Shoemaker, former director of Center for Com-munity Engagement, Learning and Leadership, “made an issue” out of the fence, and it was taken down, joining the University with the out-side community.

The University can only be-come a member of the community by serving it, according to Sharon Andrews, an English instructor who teaches the most service-learning classes at the University.

“Because LSU, through its mis-sion and the flagship agenda, empha-sizes the importance of civic engage-ment, it does seem ironic at least that practically all of the funding for the CCELL office has been cut going forward,” Andrews said.

Thus, Student Government has already tried to fund CCELL and failed at the Board of Supervisors level. Sens. Brandon Jones, College of Science, and Meredith Westbrook, Music and Dramatic Arts, pitched a bill at last night’s Senate Committee on Finance meeting to use $16,000 from the Senate Contingency Ac-count to fund eight new service learning courses.

“This would initiate new class-es in different departments,” Jones said. “For each course we’re trying to initiate, it’s $2,000, and we want 8 courses, so it’s $16,000.”

However, the committee voted to amend the bill and decrease the funding to $12,000 because the Sen-ate Contingency Account currently contains about $28,000.

Sen. Amber Guillory, E.J. Ourso College of Business, said she feared that if the full $16,000 was used to fund CCELL, it would leave less than $10,000 in the account, mak-ing it difficult for SG to fund other organizations and events during the spring.

“It’s all about priority spend-ing,” Guillory said.

Jones and Westbrook asked for the bill to not be further cut from $12,000.

“Cutting it any more would be a problem, but I think this will be OK,” Westbrook said.

The bill unanimously passed

committee with the amendment to use $12,000 to fund six new service-learning courses. The amended ver-sion will be debated at Wednesday night’s Senate meeting.

SG President J Hudson will pos-sibly fund the other two classes, ac-cording to Westbrook.

Andrews said she’s hoping SG will be able to fund more CCELL courses than in the past.

“As students who are inter-ested in providing leadership for the student body, one of the ways they can offer leadership is to prioritize courses that offer civic engagement,” Andrews said.

Andrews recently received the Gulf-South Summit Award for out-standing faculty contributions to service-learning and is the former re-cipient of the TIAA-CREF Service-Learning Award.

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Funds to aid service-learning courses

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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TRANSPORTATION

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standby],” High said. “Our goal is to provide housing to as many people that want it.”

ResLife hopes to improve communication with students by creating a more responsive stand-by list, High said. Students on the waiting list will immediately re-ceive notification of cancellations.

Kirby-Smith Hall, which has been out of commission since 2006, will open temporarily to al-leviate some of the housing capac-ity stress.

The first seven floors will be available for students to live in, High said, adding 350 beds to Re-sLife’s housing arsenal.

High said ResLife plans to keep Kirby-Smith open for five years, while renovations are being made to other residence halls. Af-ter five years, Kirby-Smith will be dedicated to year-round conference housing.

Kirby-Smith is currently un-dergoing more than $1 million in renovations, High said.

The building will have new paint, lights and furniture and renovated suite bathrooms. It will no longer be a male-only dorm but will be co-ed separated by floor, High said.

“We’re expecting Kirby to be popular, especially once people see it,” High said.

As a football fan, it’s impossible not to salivate when thinking about Super Bowl XLV .

This game will pit two of the most sto-ried franchises in the history of the NFL against each other. The team with the most Super Bowl trophies against the team that won the fi rst two.

It will showcase Pittsburgh quarter-back Ben Roethlisberger trying to put him-self back in the good graces of Steeler Na-tion with his third Super Bowl ring against Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers who could fi nally emerge from the specter of Brett Favre for good.

Which defender with amazing hair will hoist the Lombardi trophy above their fl owing mane, the incomparable Troy Pol-amalu or the relentless Clay Matthews Jr. ?

The matchup between Steeler re-ceiver Hines Ward and Packer cornerback Charles Woodson , two veterans who have been called “wiley” on more than one oc-casion, should be epic.

And perhaps most refreshingly, there are no Daniel Snyders or creepy Al

Davises involved with these franchises. Both have been built meticulously through the draft, almost completely ignoring the

Al Haynesworths of the world.

The game has all the potential to be one of the better Super Bowls in recent memory if the teams can duplicate their 2009 late-season matchup, which Pitts-burgh won, 37-36 .

The game was a back-and-forth affair, where the two quar-terbacks combined to throw for 886 yards and six touchdowns , and Roethlisberger hit Mike Wallace in the endzone as time expired to win the game.

Having said that, I am leaving objec-tivity at the curb. I grew up in Wisconsin, and I can honestly tell you I will be title-belting my TV after every solid play. Win or lose.

Doing my best Nostradamus impres-sion, here’s a preview of what’s to come.

At the Pittsburgh 5-yard line, Rodgers

Neither Green Bay nor Pittsburgh re-ally won their respective championship games.

In actuality, they squandered large fi rst half leads and hung on to not be defeated.

Whatever works.Both games were exercises in how not

to play a football game with a lead. Green Bay showed its comfort with a late 14-point lead, letting third-string Bears quarterback Caleb Hanie pass right through its soft zone.

Over in the AFC, the Steelers couldn’t even manage a single point after a 24-point fi rst half .

I hope the Super Bowl is a little more exciting.

One thing’s for certain: This Super Bowl will not be short of headlines.

What you have are two storied fran-chises vying for something they already have plenty of — Super Bowl rings.

Even more than that, you have two teams who were expected to make it this far. Both teams had huge expectations at the beginning of the season to end up here,

and both were able to make it through to get to the Super Bowl.

Pittsburgh was without its starting quarterback, Ben Ro-ethlisberger, for the fi rst four weeks of the sea-son, and they managed a 3-1 record.

Green Bay also had to manage a few late-season games without Aaron Rodgers , and both losses almost cost them a playoff berth.

And now with all of that in place, it’s time to make my far-too-early picks.

Instead of comparing quarterbacks, running backs, special teams, offensive lines and every other position (which will be overdone in the next two weeks), I’ll look at a few (of the numerous) other vari-ables that could help pick a winner.

First off, these are both cold weather teams that play in outdoor stadiums, so it seems there is no advantage to either play-ing in a dome.

However, Green Bay is 2-2 this

SportsTuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 page 7

Rodgers will bring title back to Green Bay after 12 years

GREEN BAY, see page 11

Andy SchwehmSports Columnist

Steelers will claim title despite two teams’ poor performances

COOL HAND LUKESCHWEHMMING AROUND

Luke JohnsonSports Contributor

PITTSBURGH, see page 11

ANDY SCHWEHMSports Columnist

LUKE JOHNSONSports Contributor

The 3-point shot can be a game changer, rally starter or even a nail in the coffi n.

But for LSU, the outside shot has yet to yield any favorable results.

In Southeastern Conference play, the Tigers are shooting 20.5 percent — dead last in the confer-ence.

LSU has made just 15 shots from beyond the arc in its four con-ference games this season. Only Ala-bama has made fewer, with 14 .

“Offensively, our problem is when we get open looks, so many players on this team aren’t scor-ers, per se, they’re role players,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson . “As much as we work on it in the spring [and] as much as we work on it in the summer, when they sag off of you, you’ve got to shoot this with confi -dence. And therein lies the problem: confi dence.”

The lack of production from downtown has been a contributing factor to LSU ranking in the cellar of the SEC’s total offense rankings, as well.

The woes began to hit hard when freshman guard Ralston Turn-er went down with a foot injury. Be-fore his injury, Turner was shooting nearly 35 percent from outside, hav-ing hit 34-of -98 shots.

Johnson said Turner , who has not played in a conference game, might see his fi rst conference action on Saturday when the Tigers travel to Alabama .

“Ralston can defi nitely spread a defense because of his shot,” said freshman guard Andre Stringer . “He can shoot it, so having him back is

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Numbers represent 3-point shooting percentages for SEC teams. LSU has made just 15 shots from beyond the arc in its four conference games this season. SHOOT, see page 11

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Tiger Feed: Read blogger Ryan Ginn’s defense of Bears QB Jay Cutler.

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FOOTBALL

Drake Nevis no longer on roster for 2011 Senior Bowl

LSU defensive tackle Drake Nevis has pulled out of the 2011 Se-nior Bowl.

Nevis was set to join LSU line-backer Kelvin Sheppard and kicker Josh Jasper in the game scheduled for Jan. 29.

The Senior Bowl features the nation’s top senior college football players in a North-against-South for-mat. The Cincinnati Bengals coaching staff will lead the North team while the Buffalo Bills staff will coach the South.

Nevis’ name no longer appears on the South roster on the offi cial Se-nior Bowl website.

Iowa defensive end Adrian

Clayborn , Florida offensive lineman Marcus Pouncey and North Carolina linebacker Quan Sturdivant have also decided not to play.

While Nevis’ mother, Vivian Nevis , said she was “not sure the ex-act reason” why the 2010 fi rst-team All-Southeastern Conference line-man decided not to play, local draft expert Mike Detillier said it might be because of a foot injury.

Detillier said he’s not sure when the injury may have popped up, but

it could have hap-pened in the Cotton Bowl or the practic-es leading up to it.

Nevis re-corded a tackle in every regular season game but was held without a stop against Texas A&M.

“It’s not un-usual for players to

pull out if they have an injury, even if it’s a slight injury,” Detillier said. “It really doesn’t affect a draft status. More than anything, teams want to see how you work out at your indi-vidual day and the combine.”

Detillier said the last thing a player wants to do is hurt his draft status by practicing poorly leading up to the Senior Bowl. He said the practices may be more highly scruti-nized by scouts than the game itself.

“While you would love to see him play in that game – and they’ve got some really good defensive line-men in that ball game – if you’re nursing an injury, what you don’t want to do is go over there and not practice well,” he said.

Nevis started every game for the Tigers this season. He fi nished third in the SEC with three forced fumbles, eighth in the SEC with six sacks and sixth in the SEC with 13 tackles for loss. He also recorded the fi rst interception of his career.

The defensive tackle’s stellar senior year could make him an early second-round pick in the 2011 NFL draft, according to Detillier .

DT expected to be second-round pickRowan KavnerSports Writer

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NBA

Hornets meet requirement to keep franchise in New OrleansThe New Orleans Hornets aren’t

going anywhere — for now. Gov. Bobby Jindal and New

Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu an-nounced Monday the Hornets met their attendance goal in the team’s lease required to keep the franchise in New Orleans for another season.

The Hornets had to average 14,735 fans per game in for the con-tract clause to kick in.

“Because of the tremendous outpouring of support from this area and all across the state, the Hornets will stay right here for another year,” Jindal said in a news release. “Of course, just because we reached this important mark, doesn’t mean the Hornets won’t need us anymore.”

New Orleans (30-16) is current-ly riding an nine-game win streak. The average attendance in its last three games before Monday’s game against Oklahoma City has been 16,390 .

After the possibility of a move had been discussed, both Jindal and Landrieu issued a challenge to Hor-nets fans to meet the attendance benchmark.

The Hornets Business Council raised $420,000 , which comes out to

16,600 tickets. If the attendance fi gure had not

been met, then the team had a $10 million option to opt out of its con-tract, leaving it eligible to move.

“Our business community and residents have answered the call once again,” Landrieu said. “As someone who was involved in bring-ing the Hornets to New Orleans in 2002, I remain fully committed to doing what it takes to keep the team here for good.”

The struggle is not over by any means, though. The lease stipulates if attendance goals are not met in March 2012 or 2013 the team can terminate the contract.

“We want to thank the business council and community, our fans, sponsors and political leaders for their support, but this is just the be-ginning, as we all have a lot of work to do to continue to build our part-nership and solidify the sustainabil-ity of all our support,” said Hornets president Hugh Weber .

The Hornets have been in fi -nancial jeopardy for months, forc-ing the NBA to buy the team from struggling owner George Shinn. The league bought the team for about $300 million in December.

Shinn brought the team from

Charlotte, N.C., in 2002 . Born as an expansion franchise in 1985 , the team was competitive for much of its time in Charlotte , but support in the area disintegrated, forcing Shinn and company to move.

The team currently sits in fi fth place in the Western Division, 8.5 games behind the San Anto-nio Spurs. The Los Angeles Lakers are in second place, while Okla-homa City is in third and the Dallas

Mavericks in fourth. The Hornets beat the Thunder,

91-89 , on Monday.

MARTIN MCCALLISTER / The Daily Reveille

Senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis (92) is applauded by teammates Sept. 26 after an interception during LSU’s 30-26 win against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss.

‘‘‘It’s not unusual for players to pull out if they have an injury, even if it’s a slight

injury.’Mike Detillierlocal draft expert

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Danish recruit Anne Pedersen meshes into new American life

High school senior basket-ball player Anne Pedersen moved last year to the United States from Copenhagen — the largest city in Denmark — and she will soon take the court at LSU, Louisiana’s largest university.

Pedersen, a guard and wing player listed at 6-foot-1-inch, is currently a student at The Rock School in Gainesville, Fla., and signed with LSU on Nov. 11.

Many immigrants to the U.S. take a while to ease into the American lifestyle, but Lady Li-ons coach Fabian Chapov said he didn’t see any major hurdles

for Pedersen.“She has incredible com-

mand of the English language,” Chapov said. “It didn’t seem like there was any kind of transition period. It was very seamless. She is a pretty mature girl for her age, very intelligent. If you’d see her, you’d think she’s been living here her whole life.”

Pedersen played on the Den-mark Under-18 National Team in 2009, and most recently, she was nominated for the 2011 McDon-ald’s All-American Games.

Chapov said she carries her composure onto the basketball court and motivates her team-mates to act similarly.

Pedersen was recruited by several basketball programs around the country this season and received offi cial offers from Alabama-Birmingham and UNC-Wilmington, along with LSU.

Chapov said one of Peder-sen’s requirements was to attend a large university, and she fell in love with LSU. The feeling was clearly mutual, as LSU coach Van Chancellor called Pedersen “a difference-maker” when she com-mitted to the Lady Tigers.

“It was an easy choice for her,” Chapov said. “She loved the coaching staff and loved the fa-cilities. She’s one of those players that, because of her maturity, reli-ability and experience, the coach-es will give her key minutes. And she doesn’t turn the ball over.”

When Pedersen gets to LSU in the fall, she will likely have a chance to play as a freshman, said Mark Lewis, national recruit-ing coordinator for ESPN Hoop-Gurlz. LSU will lose two guards next season in Katherine Graham and Latear Eason, who are both seniors.

Lewis said Pedersen’s most valuable assets are her size and “well-rounded” game.

“She combines textbook fun-damental skills with good size,” Lewis said. “It’s that European skill set putting players up in the high post or the high perim-eter, wherever they’re stuffi ng the block. Anne and [LSU freshman guard Jeanne] Kenney are really the backcourt together.”

Pedersen was not available for an interview, as she tore her meniscus about two weeks ago and fl ew to Denmark on Friday to undergo surgery. Chapov said she will return to the U.S. on Feb. 1.

Then Pedersen will be back to lead the Lady Lions, now 12-6, down the stretch of her fi nal sea-son at The Rock School. Chapov said he is proud of how calmly she conducts herself day in and day out.

“Her demeanor is the same whether we’re up by 20 or down by 20,” Chapov said. “She never gets frantic.”

Pedersen joins 6-foot-4-inch forward Krystal Forthan, the No. 5 player in the country by ESPN HoopGurlz, as LSU’s early sign-ees. Lewis said Pedersen is more of a savvy player, while Forthan is naturally more aggressive.

“[Pedersen] did struggle with the nature of the game here a lit-tle bit with the aggressive play,” Lewis said. “Her preference is more of a fi nesse game, but she’s willing to mix it up. You have to do that in the SEC.”

Guard committed to LSU in Nov.Rachel WhittakerSports Writer

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NBA

Temple called up to join Bucks

Garrett Temple was ecstatic to talk to former LSU teammate Chris Johnson on Sunday after hearing the news of Johnson’s call up to the Portland Trail Blazers from the NBA D-League.

“If you would have been in my house when I was talking to Chris, you would have thought I would have gotten called up,” Temple said.

That’s exactly what happened one day later.

Temple, a guard for the Erie BayHawks, was called up Mon-day by the Milwaukee Bucks to join the team for a 10-day con-tract.

Temple was a four-year play-er for LSU, averaging 7.1 points and 4.5 assists as a senior from 2008-09.

Temple had just wrapped up

a 28-point performance Saturday night against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

“My mom called me after the game and complained that they took away one of my 3-pointers,” Temple said. “I told her I guess it didn’t matter after the call up.”

T e m p l e scored 14.4 points a night during his nine games with Erie, shooting 38.8 percent from 3-point range.

T a s m i n Mitchell, another former LSU bas-ketball leader, also plays for the

BayHawks.“I was able to go up there with

Tasmin,” Temple said. “We’ve been playing well. I started getting my rhythm back.”

After the 10-day period, the Bucks can either sign him to an-other contract for 10 days or one for the rest of the year. If not, he will go back to the D-League.

“I just want to play, be a good

teammate and work hard,” Tem-ple said. “I’m looking forward to making an impression.”

The 6-foot-6-inch guard signed with the Houston Rockets in September of 2009, but ended up with the Rio Grande Valley Vi-pers of the NBA D-League.

Later in the season he signed a 10-day contract with the Sacra-mento Kings and then a 10-day contract with the San Antonio Spurs before the Spurs locked him up for the rest of the season.

Temple said he was glad to hear about Johnson’s call up to the Blazers.

Johnson was averaging 17.2 points and 9.7 rebounds with the D-League’s Dakota Wizards.

“Defense in the NBA is a little better than the D-League,” Temple said on the advice he gave to Johnson. “But there’s a lot of talent in the D-League this year, more than last year.”

File photo

Former LSU guard Garrett Temple (14) defends against Florida’s Erving Walker on Feb. 24, 2009, during the Tigers’ 81-75 win against the Florida Gators in the PMAC. Temple will join the Milwaukee Bucks for a 10-day contract.

Michael LambertSports Writer

‘‘‘I’m looking forward to making

an impression.’

Garrett Temple former LSU guard

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One word has become syn-onymous with the LSU men’s basketball team this season — young.

It’s been a culture shock for the four freshmen, who were thrown onto the court ear-ly in the 2010-11 campaign.

F r e s h m a n guard Matt Deren-becker went from shooting hoops in the tiny gym of Country Day High School in Metairie, La., to playing in front of 24,330 roaring Wildcat fans in Kentucky’s Rupp Arena.

“I realized this is college basketball when we went to Ken-tucky,” Derenbecker said. “When Kentucky scored or made a good play, you couldn’t hear anything.”

The four freshmen and zero seniors earned the Tigers the title of least-experienced squad in the Southeastern Conference, ac-cording to Kenpom.com.

“Experience is crucial,” said Aran Smith , president of NBADraft.net. “You can have some kids that come in and really know how to play and contribute right away, but experienced play-ers are so valuable.”

Mississippi State (10-8, 2-2) and Georgia (14-4, 3-2) represent the veteran SEC teams, both with top-100 rankings on the website.

“Anytime you have a team that has a number of players that have been there before, it goes a long way,” Smith said. “The ex-perience factor is great.”

Kentucky (15-4, 3-2) has thrived without a veteran lineup, boasting the No. 14 ranking in the country despite having the 312th most experienced team in the country. The Wildcats throttled LSU in their Jan. 15 matchup, 82-44, but have lost two confer-ence games already to Alabama and Georgia.

LSU, who is suiting up its youngest team since the 2005-06 season , ranks 326th out of the 345 NCAA Division I teams in game experience, according to the website.

Despite the infl ux of young players, LSU coach Trent John-son has been vocal about not worrying about the youth of his players.

“We’re 19 games into this deal, so as much as you want to talk about [the lack of experi-ence], that’s all about excuses,” Johnson said. “The big picture is: Are we getting better?”

The Tigers are without a player with more than two years of experience.

“We knew going into this we were a young team,” Derenbeck-er said. “The stuff we are going through is all new to us. We’ve

never been through it before.”The four freshmen, three of

which have started at least four games, account for 52 percent of the team’s points.

Freshman guard Ralston Turner’s team-leading 13.7 points a game and freshman point guard Andre Stringer’s contribu-tion of 12.9 a night helped the

freshman class lead the team in the points depart-ment.

“There’s a lot of things we haven’t seen,” Stringer said. “There’s a lot of situations we aren’t ready for.”

Experience in those situa-

tions has led to successful sea-sons in the past for LSU.

The Tigers’ most seasoned team the past four seasons also

had the most wins. LSU’s 2009 squad, winners of the SEC cham-pionship , recorded 27 wins with the nation’s 22nd most experienced team. Those Tigers made it to the sec-ond round of the NCAA tournament, losing to eventual na-tional cham-pion North C a r o l i n a , 84-70.

Players like current New Or-leans Hor-net Marcus Thornton, current Portland Trai-blazer Chris Johnson and current Milwaukee Buck Garrett Temple were stalwarts of that team.

The other three LSU teams were no higher than 208th in the nation in experience. None of

those teams c l a i m e d more than 17 victories.

The lack of seniors has forced this year’s team to fi nd a group of players to fi ll the leader-ship void.

Stringer said junior f o r w a r d Storm War-ren , junior guard Chris Bass and

sophomore forward Eddie Lud-wig take the reins of the team at certain times, but no dominant fi gure has emerged.

“We don’t have a stone-cold leader right now,” Stringer said. “We have a lot of guys that like to be a leader as far as being vocal.”

Sophomore guard Aaron Dotson said he’s seen a differ-ence between this year’s team compared to last season’s group, which was led by then-senior Tasmin Mitchell . Mitchell de-parted LSU as the leader in min-utes played (4,692) and third in scoring (1,989).

“In some ways it’s been dif-ferent,” Dotson said. “We’re do-ing a lot more drills and stuff. We’ve been breaking down stuff and learning different defenses.”

Follow Michael Lambert on Twitter @TDR_lambert.

Freshmen hold more than half of pointsMichael LambertSports Writer

MEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU’s youth movement taking time to blossom into wins

SEC East: • 94. Georgia (14-4, 3-2): 2 seniors, 6 juniors•137. Tennessee (12-7, 2-2): 6 seniors•190. Florida (15-4, 4-1): 3 seniors•244. Vanderbilt (14-4, 2-2): 3 seniors•312. Kentucky (15-4, 3-2): 1 senior•324. South Carolina (12-6, 3-2): 2 seniors

SEC West:• 65. Mississippi State (10-8, 2-2): 4 seniors•145. Ole Miss (13-7, 1-4): 2 seniors, 5 juniors•182. Arkansas (12-6, 2-3): 3 seniors•193. Alabama (12-7, 4-1): 4 seniors•316. Auburn (7-12, 0-5): 1 senior•326. LSU (10-9, 2-2): No seniors, 4 freshmen

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‘‘‘There’s a lot of

things we haven’t seen. There’s a lot of situations we aren’t ready for.’

Andre StringerLSU freshman point guard

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season playing inside. They de-feated the Vikings and Falcons and lost to the Lions and Fal-cons. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh has played only one game inside this season, and that was a 20-10 loss to the Saints.ADVANTAGE: GREEN BAY

There isn’t very much sepa-rating these teams heading into the Super Bowl. So I turn my at-tention to common opponents.

Both the Packers and the Steelers have played Atlanta, New England and Miami.

Green Bay lost at Atlanta, 20-17, in the regular season, but defeated the Falcons in Atlanta, 48-21, two weeks ago in the di-visional round of the playoffs. The Steelers played Atlanta in the first week of the regular season and defeated the Falcons in Pitts-burgh, 15-9, in overtime.

Both the Packers and the Steelers fell victim to New Eng-land. Green Bay lost on the road to the Patriots, while the Steelers fell at home.

Finally, the Packers lost to the Dolphins in overtime, 23-20,

in week six of the regular season.The Steelers were able to pull

one out in Miami, 23-22, in week seven of the regular season.ADVANTAGE: PITTSBURGH

One thing the Steelers have from the past few years these Packers don’t — two Super Bowl Rings.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has been here already. In fact, this is his second time working the big game in three years. Pack-ers coach Mike McCarthy hasn’t coached in this big of a game in his now five seasons at the helm of the team.

I’ll take the Steelers, 31-26.Sorry, fellow colleague and

lifelong Packers fan, Luke John-son. The title belt is going to Pittsburgh.

Andy Schwehm is a 21-year-old English and Psychology se-nior from Algiers, Louisiana. You can follow him on Twitter @TDR_ASchwehm.

PITTSBURGH, from page 7

looks left, looks right and takes the snap. I lean on the edge of my couch.

Greg Jennings — the man with the team on his back — is locked up by a cornerback who is anxiously awaiting the rocket from the cannon that sits square-ly on the quarterback’s shoulder, but it’s not coming. I wring my Packers hat in my hands.

With no other options, the nimble quarterback from Chico, Calif., takes off for paydirt, eas-ily beating some schmuck defen-sive end who knew he never had a chance. I shoot from the edge of my couch, spilling some frosty beverage all over my living room.

Then the chosen one un-leashes it — the title belt. In turn I follow suit — over and over again.

Come try to take it, Blitz-burgh.

The vaunted Steelers defense might succeed once or twice in knocking A-Rod on his back.

Falcons defensive end John Abraham got to Rodgers and mockingly put on his own title belt, though I’d grade his effort a C at best.

Bears defensive end Julius Peppers even gave him a bloody lip.

But in the end, Mr. Rodgers and his gang will be pairing their title belts with some shiny new hardware.

They’ll parade the Lombar-di trophy along Lombardi Ave., in Green Bay, Wis., and they’ll show off those fancy Super Bowl Champion rings to the faithful. And all will be right with the world.

Expect Rodgers to step up on sport’s highest stage and deliver a performance that will solidify his standing among the elite quar-terbacks in the NFL. Packers 27, Steelers 17.

Returning the Lombardi tro-phy and the title belt to Titletown.

GREEN BAY, from page 7

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another great weapon we have. He’s a great player, and we can’t wait to have him back.”

In LSU’s previous game against Ole Miss, the Tigers caught fire early as freshman forward Matt Deren-becker connected from long range on his first two attempts. The team even started out 4-of-5 from distance.

But Derenbecker missed his fi-nal four attempts and finished 2-for-6 and the team clocked out at 6-for-17 for the game.

Derenbecker gave Ole Miss credit for shutting him down late, saying a switch in defensive philoso-phy caused some troubles.

“They switched from guards,” Derenbecker said. “They threw Dun-drecous Nelson at me at first, they switched to [Zach] Graham, who is a 6-6, 6-7 player. When they did that, they had more length.”

Another reason Derenbecker

believes SEC teams have been able to corral the Tigers outside shooting has been a shift from majority zone defense to more man-to-man.

That switch, combined with a lack of execution on screens, has given the LSU offense fits.

“We need to set better screens,” Derenbecker said. “Coach has stressed to us, when you set a good screen, you’re open as a result of that.”

Johnson has taken on the duty of making sure his players get those chances as often as possible.

“The bottom line is, it’s our re-sponsibility and my responsibility as a coach to put kids and put players in situations to have open shots,” John-son said.

For the Tigers to gain that much-needed confidence necessary to become a feared foe from 3-point land, they’re going back to the old adage that practice makes perfect.

“Coach says, ‘Each individual

player needs to get in there and prac-tice more on their own and take time to shoot,’” Stringer said. “The gym is open for us, and I just think we haven’t been in the gym enough in-dividually. And that’s on us.”

But following Saturday’s 78-51 loss to Ole Miss, the perimeter shoot-ers decided enough was enough and held their own private shootaround in hopes of helping the team’s shoot-ing percentage — and as a result, its winning percentage.

“We came in [Sunday] and shot for about an hour, and we all came in and made some shots,” Derenbecker said. “We’re trying to get people to come in before practice. The coaches are really stressing that, and we all know that’s what we need to do.”

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THE BOTTOM LINE

Training church parishioners to use guns is in the wrong SpiritOn July 6, 2010, our beloved

Piyush “Bobby” Jindal signed into effect the controversial “Guns in Churches” bill, which allows for the carrying of fire-arms into reli-gious buildings.

Now, I un-derstand how laws like this can come into effect. Some maniac walks into a church, synagogue or mosque and mows his fellow men and women down in cold blood. Because of the personal nature of religion in our society, the people cry out, and frequently to their

local representatives.I suspect politicians are gener-

ally unconcerned with our woes. Unemployment, high inflation and budget issues run rampant while our leaders take vacations and tour to promote their books.

Occasionally, an issue is brought to the limelight and be-comes so prolific as to force a re-sponse from politicians, even if nothing practical can be done.

Shootings like the recent trag-edy in Arizona have once again shown us how politicians respond to events like these.

Some of the most ridiculous laws proposals I’ve seen in some time came in response to this shooting. A proposition to make it

illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of certain politicians is both impractical and slightly ridiculous. In order to be effective, you would have to show where every politi-cian’s location is at all times, posing a much larger threat to their lives than before.

Now we move to Louisiana. Places like Bossier Parish are taking Jindal up on his offer.

The law requires would-be parishioners-turned-Rambo to take eight hours of training with local police before they can carry weap-ons into the home of the Prince of Peace.

So, in combination with the re-quired training, some small fringe groups akin to those in Bossier

churches have begun firing drills and basic martial arts training in or-der to be prepared for a would-be terrorist.

I’m deeply concerned about this trend.

First of all, I haven’t seen any evidence that a higher level of weaponry causes us to be more safe. Quite to the contrary, I would imag-ine if you made sure everyone had guns, many more fights would es-calate to lethal levels. It’s the same reason why the world carefully monitors who has nuclear weapons.

The behavior isn’t new to Boss-ier, which infamously implemented “Operation Exodus,” arming civil-ians with everything from shotguns and riot shields up to a full “war

wagon” mounted with a .50-caliber machine gun. It isn’t a new trend, and it most definitely isn’t healthy, and I would be extremely suspicious of any church training parishioners like the very people they plan to be preparing for.

Here’s the bottom line: If you think terrorists are more danger-ous to your life than heart disease, you’ve been fooled.

Devin Graham is a 21-year-old business management senior from Prairieville. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_dgraham.

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FAILURE OF DIPLOMACY

A columnist’s State of the Union addressing key issuesMy fellow Americans, as most

of us undoubtedly know, our country faces many major issues as it nears its 235th birthday. But as the specter of terrorism continues to hang over us and the actions of foreign leaders must be watched, we cannot forget our domestic problems.

While our country may be a great one, it’s not without flaws. Ignoring these problems to feign strength will only hurt us more down the line.

Our economy is still a wreck,

and while we may be slowly bouncing back, there are some things we still can’t ignore.

The unem-ployment rate may have fallen to 9.1 percent from the 10.6 percent it was a year ago, but

this is still unacceptable.More than anything, in the

next few years I want to make sure as many Americans as possible are secure in as many ways as possible. Whether it’s economically, physi-cally or socially, I’d like to make America a more secure place for its citizens.

And there have been a few breakthroughs lately in the security arena.

We finally saw the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” last month. While some may stubbornly, and falsely, argue this will harm our

military, we must not see this as any-thing but a victory for America and the liberties it stands for.

As long as we continued to for-bid homosexuals from openly serv-ing in the military, their position in society cannot have been called equal. By letting these Americans fight to defend their country without hiding a major part of their lives, we open the road for sharing more liber-ties with them.

In a few years, I hope all men and women can marry whomever they love in any state.

Meanwhile, our nation’s health care still does not meet the stan-dards its citizens require, and while President Obama’s actions may have been a step in the right direction, it simply wasn’t enough.

As more of our population reaches the age of retirement and the obesity rate continues to rise, we are going to see more and more health issues in our country. If we don’t prepare correctly, this could have large ramifications for both our economy and health care system.

And recent tragedy has shown our mental health care system is not quite up to par. Tucson shooter Jared Loughner needed mental clearance to be allowed back into his com-munity college, so it’s hard not to wonder if his attack would have hap-pened had he received help.

The question is then, why could we not give him the help he needed before a tragedy like this?

Again, Americans need to feel secure — both in the fact those with mental issues are getting the attention they need, and healthy

Americans can get help if they need it.

Problems lay beyond our bor-der, as well.

While we may be officially done in Iraq, we are only now beginning to plan on bringing our forces home from Afghanistan. After nearly 10 years and just under 1,500 American lives later, I think most Americans could agree it’s about time.

Unfortunately Osama bin Lad-en may still be free, and we can only hope we can catch him soon.

To say we are anywhere near done in the Middle East, however, would be a severe mistake. Iran is still led by the potentially danger-ous, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who continues anti-Israeli threats.

Similarly, across the world we have allies in South Korea facing the ailing Kim Jong-il and an ever grow-ing state of tension.

Altogether, we can see there are many issues facing the U.S. in the coming months. In the face of all these, Americans must be shown their government will do its best to make their lives as secure as pos-sible.

It is in these times of trouble when we must come together as one country. Letting petty political dif-ferences divide our great nation is the only way we will let these prob-lems overcome us.

Zachary Davis is a 20-year-old his-tory junior from Warsaw, Poland. Follow him at Twitter @TDR_zdavis.

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Your mom will definitely hate this column, ‘Dead Space 2’“I think it’ll make a person be-

come insane.”“I don’t think I’ve ever seen

anything so horrible.”“Why would they even make

something like this?”Normally, quotes like these

would not be what a company is looking for to promote its new product.

But it seems video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts doesn’t mind and is using anti-endorsements like these in its most recent ad campaign for its new game, “Dead Space 2.”

The “Your Mom Hates Dead Space 2” ad first premiered during the Falcons-Packers NFL playoff game.

The idea for the ad was sim-ple: set up a “focus group” of 200 middle-aged or older women, show them the most violent, gruesome and disturbing images from “Dead Space 2” and film their reactions.

The outcome is pure gold.

Unanimously every mom hat-ed what she saw.

The footage was filled with looks of disgust, hands over mouths and the constant repeating of “Oh, my God!”

For those unfamiliar with “Dead Space,” the original takes place on a doomed space research ves-sel, the USG Ishimura.

Players fill the shoes of engineer Isaac Clarke and must investigate the Ishimura to discover the mystery that lies within.

However, horrific mutant-like creatures known as necromorphs start attacking — but instead of simply shooting the monsters to kill them, players must use “strate-gic dismemberment” to gradually sever the enemy’s limbs one by one

to destroy it.Gruesome for sure.With the sequel coming out to-

day, it would’ve only been a matter of time until conservative house-wives were banging on EA’s door demanding the heads of whoever created such the monstrosity taint-ing poor Little Johnny’s mind.

But instead, EA embraces this fact — and even has a voiceover in the ad say, “it’s revolting, it’s violent, it’s everything you love in a game ... and your mom’s gonna hate it” — and effectively elimi-nates the main ammunition of these parent groups.

But, some of my friends — as well as many others in the gaming community — don’t share my en-thusiasm toward the ad campaign.

Many claim the ad is misguid-ed and seems to be marketing chil-dren, rather than its target audience of adults.

By claiming “your mom will hate this,” EA is paving the way

for more child rebellion through dangerous child consumption.

While I can see where these people are coming from, I can’t agree with their arguments.

“Dead Space 2” is rated M for “mature.”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: This means the game was made for adults, by adults.

A retail store can’t legally sell an M-rated game to someone younger than the age of 17.

Will someone under that age play the game? Of course.

But that’s not the fault of the developers. It’s the fault of the par-ents — for either buying the game for their kids, or being unaware of what their children are doing.

If Little Johnny asks his mom for “Dead Space 2,” a simple Google search will show EA say-ing she’s going to hate it and why.

But many parents don’t do that — they just blame others for their own ignorance and laziness.

The original “Dead Space” was a terrific, terrifying thriller and easily put the “horror” back in a survival-horror game.

And I feel the second will be no different.

Controversy sells.Instead of waiting around for

the controversy to hit them in the face, EA officials put their “dirty laundry” out for all to see.

And while the game may be no “Mass Effect 2,” it’ll still be a fantastic thriller, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twit-ter @TDR_aarinder.

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The Tunisian revolution matters, even in the USAVIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

IOWA CITY, Iwoa (UWIRE)—During the first day of class, I asked students enrolled in my sur-vey course on the Islamic civiliza-tion to think of an important event from around the world.

The first student to speak pointed out the return of a dictator to Haiti. The second student said that China flying its first Stealth airplane was a very significant event. Three other students spoke, pointing out various events, before a student mentioned the ongoing Tunisian revolution.

I asked how many students had even a vague idea about what has happened in Tunisia since Dec. 18, 2010; around 10 percent of them raised their hands.

Sure, there is no shortage of significant events that have taken place in the last month or so.

However, a revolution taking place in Tunisia ought to be com-pelling even for those with benign interest in international affairs. So why is it, then, that only 10 percent of students taking a course on the Islamic world were aware of this revolution?

The answer is simple: lack of media coverage — or, should I say, selective coverage — and therein lie serious ethical, political and security problems for the United States.

I am sure more than 10 per-cent of students and the public re-member that, a year and half ago, elections were held in Iran, and supporters of the losing candidates protested violently against results that gave the current president a

second term in office. Then, cable-news channels,

major television networks, and the print and online press provided around-the-clock coverage.

The Obama administration, too, came out in support of the Ira-nian people. It was all done in the name of supporting democracy and human rights in the Islamic world.

In Tunisia, thousands of peo-ple revolted against one of the most brutal dictators of the Arab world, Zine el-Abdine Ben Ali, and his corrupt regime.

For 54 years, two despots ruled the country with iron fist. They banned credible political par-ties, tortured political prisoners, exiled opposition figures, curtailed the freedom of the press, limited access to the Internet, embezzled state funds, and increased poverty to subhuman levels.

An unemployed youth was so unbearably desperate that he set himself on fire in protest, an act that triggered the revolution that forced Ben Ali out and put the country on a path to the unknown.

So, why should students and the American public care?

Ethically, they should care because the killing of 78 innocent people, wounding of hundreds and imprisonment of many more by a dictator’s security forces is a big deal.

The shared humanity, the com-mon aspiration to pursue life and happiness, and the universal capac-ity to mourn the loss of innocent life should move anyone to sympa-thize with the Tunisian people.

Politically, if the suppression of protest in Iran was deplored by the U.S. administration and

reported as a lead story by the US media, the killing of people who rise up against oppressive rulers in Tunisia should receive the same attention. Short of that, it becomes a double standard, exposing the West to allegations of selectively highlighting human-rights issues to achieve political goals.

Tunisians feel the West’s affin-ity with Ben Ali’s regime made it ignore the plight of people fighting corruption, brutality, and usurpa-tion of national wealth.

When Western media and governments stand by re-gimes at the expense of the

freedom-seeking peoples, global security is compromised. Sup-porting dictators and ignoring the people’s right to self-rule puts the lives of Americans abroad at risk and builds walls between na-tions.

Countries of the West ought to recall their ill-advised support of the shah of Iran or the apartheid regime in South Africa to grasp the long-term implications of mis-placed support.

In today’s interconnected world, what happens on the other side of the planet can and will af-fect the way we live at home. When

civilian lives are lost at the hands of dictators, the least we can do is to follow their news and sympathize, instead of ignoring the shameful brutality of rulers who happen to be serving our short-term interests.

Ahmed E. Souaiaia is a University of Iowa associate professor who teaches courses in the College of Law, International Programs and the Religious Studies Department.

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“Count, and you’ll find 140 seats, representing the 140 faculty positions eliminated at LSU since the budget cuts began,” Hamil-ton said. “That’s 140 faculty who could be teaching class, producing research, winning federal grants and shaping students’ lives.”

Hamilton also made compari-sons illustrating the University’s lean administration, claiming the University has a lower percentage of employees paid above $100,000 than Angola Prison.

Hamilton then moved to dis-pel claims that budget cuts haven’t made a difference to the Univer-sity, giving examples like the re-duced foreign language offerings and reductions in music scholar-ships.

Next on Hamilton’s list of myths was the notion the Univer-sity’s faculty and staff won’t leave because “everyone is in this boat.”

“In the past year, LSU has lost two deans to deanships at

universities with better resources,” Hamilton said. “These aren’t even promotions, just lateral moves. Some of our best faculty members are being poached by other univer-sities with offers of bigger salaries, better laboratory space, research support and the promise of greater financial stability.”

Hamilton cited the Univer-sity’s 61 percent graduation rate as evidence the University is per-forming satisfactorily and is a good investment for the state.

Hamilton ended the address by illustrating the damage poten-tial cuts would cause to the Uni-versity.

“We have proven we can get better, and we want to continue to get better,” Hamilton said. “But if we stay on our current course, LSU will exist as only an insignifi-cant university with a good foot-ball team.”

MYTHS, from page 1

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in and partying more than they should at the beginning of each semester.

The bars to the north and south of campus bring drunken drivers through campus who are not related to the University, making it even harder to blame the first week of school for increased DWIs, Tabor said.

He said LSUPD doesn’t change tactics or add more patrol officers on occasions when more students may be out drinking.

“We remain consistent with our patrols throughout the year,” Tabor said.

For 2009 — the last year avail-able — the Louisiana State Police recorded 13,966 DWI arrests, ac-cording to the agency’s website. That number is a 4,000 increase from two years before.

Any student who receives a DWI is reported to the Dean of Stu-dents at the Office of Student Advo-cacy and Accountability, Tabor said.

The University Code of Student

Conduct states that students may re-ceive violations if they are charged with driving under the influence or driving while intoxicated.

Students who receive violations can receive punishments ranging from warning probation, disciplinary probation, prohibition from holding a leadership position on campus, suspension and other forms of pun-ishment, according to the University Code of Student Conduct.

Lauren Hunter, biology fresh-man, said Tigerland was more packed than usual on the Saturday after the first week.

“There was more energy than usual,” Hunter said.

Patrick Fitz, undeclared fresh-man, said he was careful not to be noticeable while drinking at Tiger-land during the first week of the se-mester.

The Mothers Against Drunk Driving website reports that 29 per-cent of people 12 to 20 in Louisiana used alcohol last month. The website also reports 17 percent of people in that age range had five or more

drinks in a single occasion.The legal limit for drivers over

21 is a 0.08 BAC and a 0.02 for driv-ers under 21.

Drivers charged with a DWI in Louisiana face possible punishments of loss of driver’s license for 90 to 180 days, court-ordered substance-abuse classes, jail time, fines and court fees, and other court-ordered penalties, according to the Univer-sity Student Handbook.

More than a third of traffic deaths in Louisiana are related to driving under the influence, accord-ing to the MADD website.

“More partying leads to more drinking and driving,” said Kayla Reed, English freshman.

Tabor said LSUPD tries educate all students on topics ranging from drinking and driving, using narcotics and leaving belongings unattended, but the department focuses its ener-gies on freshmen.

DWI, from page 1

Contact Celeste Ansley at cansley@lsureveille.com

The Daily Reveillepage 16 Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011